DevSecOps/Software Infrastructure Engineer – Level 2/3 (Chandler) (AHT)

Description

The Glide Phase Interceptor flight software team is hiring an early- to mid-career engineer to strengthen the software factory that supports flight software, algorithms, and modeling and simulation work.

The role is based in Chandler, Arizona, and is fully on site, with no telecommuting.

The position can be filled at Level 2 or Level 3.

The company's Space Sector builds systems that affect lives worldwide, and the team works on mission-critical capabilities where engineering workflows need to be dependable.

Interim Secret clearance is required to start, and final clearances and program access must be obtained within a reasonable period set by the company.

Relocation assistance may be available.

Responsibilities

• Maintain and improve GitLab repositories, branching workflows, integrations, CI/CD pipelines, automated tests, and software-factory operations.
• Build, configure, secure, maintain, and troubleshoot containerized development and execution environments using Podman, OCI-compatible images, and Visual Studio Code development containers.
• Write container definitions, build scripts, base images, and reusable development environments, and own the repeatable processes for building, releasing, updating, distributing, and retiring container images.
• Manage software packages, dependencies, repositories, version compatibility, and configuration baselines across Linux-based and containerized development, test, and execution environments.
• Automate builds, tests, code review, deployment, vulnerability scanning, metrics collection, and software-factory tasks to cut manual work and make results repeatable.
• Diagnose and fix complex build, test, deployment, environment, container, package, and large-scale runset problems, including root-cause analysis across GitLab pipelines, development environments, and C++ and Python applications.
• Track software-factory reliability, performance, utilization, and health, find recurring failure patterns, and put lasting fixes in place.
• Support large-scale software testing and execution, including high-performance computing scripts, workflows, resource use, job execution, and performance tuning where relevant.
• Work with flight software, algorithms, modeling and simulation, cybersecurity, test, performance, and infrastructure teams to resolve cross-functional problems and improve workflows.
• Write and maintain troubleshooting guides, release notes, tool configurations, operational documentation, and reusable development practices.
• Help teams tell infrastructure faults apart from software, model, or flight-dynamics defects.
• Other duties may be assigned.

Requirements

• For Level 2: a bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, or a related STEM field with 2 years of relevant experience, or a master's degree in a related STEM field with 1 year of professional experience. Up to 4 years of additional experience may be considered in place of a degree.
• For Level 2: experience developing or supporting software in C++ or Python.
• For Level 2: experience with Git-based source control and collaborative development workflows.
• For Level 2: experience with CI/CD pipelines, automated builds or tests, or troubleshooting development environments.
• For Level 2: experience building, maintaining, or troubleshooting container images or containerized environments with Podman, Docker, or another OCI-compatible platform.
• For Level 2: experience managing software packages or dependencies on Linux, with working knowledge of Linux command-line tools.
• For Level 2: ability to diagnose and resolve problems that span software, automation, containers, package dependencies, and infrastructure.
• For Level 2: ability to work independently, manage priorities, and collaborate across technical disciplines.
• For Level 3: a bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, or a related STEM field with 5 years of relevant experience, a master's degree with 3 years of relevant experience, or a Ph.D. in a related field with 1 year of professional experience. Up to 4 years of additional experience may be considered in place of a degree.
• For Level 3: proven experience developing, integrating, or supporting C++ or Python applications.
• For Level 3: proven experience with Git-based source control and collaborative development workflows.
• For Level 3: proven experience designing, maintaining, or troubleshooting CI/CD pipelines, automated build-and-test workflows, and development environments.
• For Level 3: proven experience building, maintaining, or troubleshooting OCI-compatible container images or containerized environments.
• For Level 3: proven experience managing Linux packages, application dependencies, or version compatibility, with working knowledge of Linux command-line tools.
• For Level 3: proven ability to diagnose and resolve problems across applications, automation, containers, package dependencies, development tooling, and infrastructure.
• For Level 3: ability to lead technical investigations, coordinate across teams, drive issues to resolution, and improve repeatable engineering practices.
• Both levels: ability to obtain and keep a U.S. Government Secret security clearance.
• Preferred: experience administering or tuning GitLab repositories, CI/CD pipelines, runners, and integrations.
• Preferred: experience with Podman, Containerfiles or Dockerfiles, image registries, image tagging, multi-stage builds, and rootless containers.
• Preferred: experience adding automated container builds, tests, vulnerability scans, and publishing to GitLab CI/CD pipelines.
• Preferred: familiarity with Linux package tools and repositories such as RPM, DNF/YUM, APT, or equivalents.
• Preferred: experience managing C++ and Python build dependencies with CMake, Conan, vcpkg, pip, or similar tools.
• Preferred: experience creating reproducible, version-controlled development environments with Visual Studio Code development containers.
• Preferred: familiarity with software supply-chain practices such as dependency pinning, provenance, software bills of materials, artifact repositories, and vulnerability remediation.
• Preferred: familiarity with DevSecOps practices, secure development processes, and software-factory operations.
• Preferred: experience with high-performance computing environments, schedulers, distributed workloads, resource-utilization analysis, or job-performance optimization.
• Preferred: experience with large-scale test execution, simulation runsets, log analysis, and failure triage.
• Preferred: experience profiling and optimizing C++ or Python applications for runtime, memory, reliability, or scalability.
• Preferred: familiarity with flight software, flight algorithms, modeling and simulation, or physics-based software.
• Preferred: experience with Bash, Python, or similar scripting and automation languages.
• Preferred: experience building dashboards or automating collection of software-quality, pipeline, reliability, and utilization metrics.
• Preferred: familiarity with static analysis, code-quality checks, automated review workflows, test coverage, and artifact management.
• Preferred: familiarity with AI-assisted development, large language models, retrieval-augmented generation, or agentic automation.
• Preferred: strong written communication, technical documentation, and cross-functional collaboration skills.

Conditions

Work is 100% on site in Chandler, Arizona. Telecommuting is not available.

Travel is required about 10% of the time.

Schedule is 9/80, with every other Friday off.

Interim Secret clearance is needed to start; final clearances and program access must be granted within a reasonable time set by the company.

Relocation assistance may be available.

Primary level base salary range: $79,300.00 to $118,900.00. Secondary level base salary range: $98,400.00 to $147,600.00. Final pay depends on scope of role, experience, education, skills, and current market conditions.

Applications are expected to stay open about 20 days from the posting date, though this may be shortened or extended based on business needs and candidate availability.

Equal opportunity and legal notices are not included here.

Benefits

• Possible overtime, shift differential, and discretionary bonus, depending on the position. Annual bonuses reward individual contributions and share company results.
• Vice President and Director roles may be eligible for long-term incentives.
• Health insurance, life and disability insurance, a savings plan, paid company holidays, and paid time off for vacation or personal business.